On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 17:10:26 -0200, Fernando Gonzalez Gentile
<fgnzalez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Perhaps I didn't spell it right (stand fast, two different words as in
> Merriam Webster's); or perhaps I didn't caught its true meaning.
> My apologies in either case.
> I would really like to understand the joke, or the more colloquial use of
> the term in question.
> I learnt it only some 4 years ago when reading the 'Freedom Part One'
> lyrics
> which Brian Priestley included in his Mingus biography:
>
> [snipped]
>
> "Stand still, old mule/Soothe in contemplation
> Thy burning whole/And aching thigh.
> That your stubbornness/Is of the living,
> And cruel anxiety/Has begun to die.
>
> Stand fast,/Young old mule,/Stand fast."
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Fernando.
>
Uh, OK. Never make an in-joke on an international list!
It's just that the motto/warcry of Clan Grant is "Stand Fast,
Craigellachie!", sometimes shortened to "Standfast!" as one word.
Craigellachie is a rock in Grant country (Aviemore, actually), which was
the rallying point for Clan Grant in warlike days.
See also bottles of Grant's whisky.
D.
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